A lot of the coins that show slide marks are in collectors’ albums. The coins are not worth enough to send to a TPG for grading, so they never see...
I saw the coin in person; you didn’t. It was in the album. I took the photos. I saw the cause of its problem. You come back with an attack. I have...
Here is an example of album slides can do. It was enough to make me cry because I love the early half dimes. This was once a really nice...
Sorry, but I disagree. I've seen slide marks on straight graded slabbed coins on more than few occasions. If you leave the highest points of the...
You don't have to buy junk for the common dates. Unless you after the Cameo coins, the best place to find them is in intact, never opened Proof...
Here is a really nice 1950 Proof set. The 1950 Proof coins tend not to come nice. The mint had not issued any Proof coins since 1942, and the...
Here is an example of a Cameo Proof Franklin Half Dollar. NGC called it a cameo. The obverse is "all there," but some might question the revere....
I bought this 1798 cent a couple of years ago when I had visions putting together a date set of large cents. It is an S-179, fairly common, and...
They have more money than brains. :wacky: He will probably get it "to stick" this time. One of the things about eBay is that some dealers I have...
And there is a strong chance that it has been dipped. There is nothing wrong with that in my opinion, but a number of collectors don't agree with...
Bright and shiny silver coins sometimes sell better to the uninitiated collectors who think that, somehow, a coin that is now over 100 years old...
Standing Liberty Quarters are noted for being dateless coins. Most of those pieces were minted from the 1917 Type II through 1924. The dates were...
In the case of Proof coin, slabs are a good ideal, at least for the better dates (1950 - 1955) because the slab provides great physical...
There has been a dedicated group of collectors forming since the late Jay Cline wrote several editions of his book on the subject. This goes back...
You can’t buy a CAC approved coin like that for $70.
"Staight grade" means it gets a grade from the TPG without a qualifier. A coin that fails will have a note on the slab label that says, "Proof,"...
Your grading is way more conservative that the TPGs. The 1913 Matte Proof coins are graded PR-66. The 1936 nickels are all PR-67s. It's hard to...
Here is the Satin Finish 1936 Buffalo Nickel. The collectors didn't like them back then, and they have always sold for less than the Brilliant...
This is an educated guess comment on my part, but I’d say that Barber smoothed out the Buffalo Nickel fields because he thought that the coin...
I too have had coins improve over time to the point where they could be graded. The factor that really kills you is cleaning hairlines. Those...
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